Donald Trump once told radio shock jock Howard Stern that his older children were ‘maybe not thrilled’ about him having more kids because ‘every time you have a child it’s 20 per cent less for the other people.’
Trump, who was speaking to Howard Stern on his radio show in December 2005, was expecting a baby with wife Melania at the time. Barron, Trump’s youngest child, was born in March 2006.
During the controversial appearance, Trump was asked by Stern’s longtime co-host Robin Quivers: ‘Do your older children get nervous every time you have another child?’
Donald Trump once told radio shock jock Howard Stern that his older children were ‘maybe not thrilled’ about him having more kids because ‘every time you have a child it’s 20 per cent less for the other people’
During the controversial appearance, Trump was asked by Stern’s longtime co-host Robin Quivers: ‘Do your older children get nervous every time you have another child?’
Donald Trump replied: ‘Well, you know I have a friend who’s also like a very rich guy and he said how his children hate the new children coming along and I said “Yeah because every time you have a child it’s 20 per cent less for the other people.”
‘So I guess, you know, maybe they’re not thrilled but I think they’re very happy.’
He added: ‘It does cut up the pie as you keep producing.’
The president was a regular guest on Stern’s show during the 1990s and early 2000s, where the pair would often have revealing and lewd conversations.
In another recently re-released recording of the shock jock’s November 11, 1999, show, Trump called into the show to discuss an upcoming prizefight at the Taj Mahal casino, but it wasn’t long before Stern steered the chat to his favorite subjects, women and sex.
President Trump said he once ‘felt up’ Melania during one of his many call-ins with shock jock Howard Stern (Trump and Melania pictured together last year)
The radio DJ proposed a few sexual scenarios, such as whether Trump’s wife Melania ‘wore panties’ during an evening out, before he asked the billionaire whether he had ever ‘ felt her up in public?’
‘Yeah,’ the President of the United States replied, before pausing and adding, ‘mentally.
‘He has I know it,’ Stern said.
‘I’m very well behaved, actually, and almost always I’m very down the middle,’ Trump responded.
Trump has been interviewed by Stern more than any other journalist.
Ivanka Trump’s ex James ‘Bingo’ Gubelmann (pictured with her in 2004) was issued a citation for cocaine last year
In another call, Stern said Melania must be ‘great in the sack’ to which Trump responded saying he’d ‘got her for the right price’, referring to Melania on a New York City billboard ad.
Around 15 hours of recordings of their on air discussions, dating from 1993 to 2015, have now been re-released. Stern had previously refused to release the tapes in 2016 during Trump’s election campaign.
In another chat with the host in September 2004, Trump and Stern were discussing how Ivanka was dating ‘blue blood’ Bingo Gubelmann, from Bedminster, New Jersey.
‘My daughter’s becoming a blue blood, she’s becoming very white shoe. That’s true.
‘I think my daughter looks down on me. She said, ‘Oh my God—’.
Ivanka, 34, began dating Gubelmann when she was in college back in 2001, but the couple split in 2005 and shortly after she began dating her now husband, Jared Kushner.
Gubelmann, 37, was later issued a citation in New York City in 2016 after he was busted for cocaine.
Trump also discussed his compulsive hand washing with Stern.
‘You realize that’s a psychological problem,’ Stern told him, to which Trump conceded it was possible but said he didn’t want to go to a psychiatrist.
‘I like it. I like cleanliness. Cleanliness is a nice thing. Not only hands, body, everything,’ he told him.
President was a regular guest on Stern’s show in the 1990s where the host would endlessly steer the conversation to his two favorite subjects; women and sex
Of course, having avoided talking about sex or bodily functions for at least a couple of minutes, Stern quickly routed the discussion back to sex, asking the real estate mogul if he made the models he dated take HIV tests.
Trump replied: ‘I own 25 percent of Goodyear Tire and Rubber.’
‘You wear a rubber?’ said Stern. ‘There you go, there’s something interesting you don’t hear every day on TV.’
Trump has conceded that his revelations on the Howard Stern Show often landed him in trouble, once saying in a 1993 recording, ‘I like Howard, but I have to be crazy to be here.’
And in October last year, Melania Trump told CNN she had warned her husband not to go on Stern’s show.
‘He was pushed on, and many times I give him an advice, and I didn’t agree to do all the tapes on Howard Stern, with Billy Bush,’ she said. ‘Because I know those people. They hook him on, they—they try to get from him some—some inappropriate and dirty language.’
But Trump kept coming back for more.
Meanwhile, the president has brushed off criticism about his conversations with the foul-mouthed radio host, saying he’d never had to censure himself before becoming a politician.
‘I never anticipated running for office or being a politician, so I could have fun with Howard on the radio and everyone would love it. People do love it,’ Trump said. ‘I could say whatever I wanted when I was an entrepreneur, a business guy.’